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    A Guide to Men: Being Encore Reflections of a Bachelor Girl
    A Guide to Men: Being Encore Reflections of a Bachelor Girl
    A Guide to Men: Being Encore Reflections of a Bachelor Girl
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    A Guide to Men: Being Encore Reflections of a Bachelor Girl

    By Helen Rowland

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      A Guide to Men - Helen Rowland

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      Title: A Guide to Men

      Being Encore Reflections of a Bachelor Girl

      Author: Helen Rowland

      Release Date: December 8, 2009 [EBook #30630]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A GUIDE TO MEN ***

      Produced by Emmy, Tor Martin Kristiansen and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This

      file was produced from images generously made available

      by The Internet Archive)

      A GUIDE TO MEN

      CONTENTS

      FOREWORD

      A SMALL phial, I doubt not, could contain the attar of the epigrammatic literature of all time. Few of the perfumes of this diminutive form of wit and satire have survived. Pretty and scented vaporings, most of the thousands and thousands of them, that have died on the air of the foibles of their day.

      Yet how the pungent ones can persist! The racy old odors, which are as new as now, that still hover about the political and amorous quips of the Greeks. The nose-crinkling ones of the French, more vinegar-acrid than perfumed, although a seventeenth-century proverb calls France a monarchy tempered by epigrams. The didactic Teutonic ones, sharply corrosive.

      The greatest evaporative of course of this form of bon mot is mere cleverness. Wit is the attar which endures. The wit of Pope and Catullus, Landor, Voltaire, Rousseau and Wilde.

      That is what Rapin must have had in mind when he said that a man ought to be content if he succeeded in writing one really good epigram.

      Helen Rowland stands pleasantly impeached for writing many. She has a whizz to her swiftly cynical arrow that entitles her to a place in the tournament.

      She is not merely anagrammatical, scorns the couplet for the mere sake of the couplet, and has little time for the smiting word at any price.

      In the entire history of epigrammatic expression there are few if any whose fame rests solely upon the brittle structure of the bon mot. Martial, about whose brilliant brevities can scarcely be said to hover the odor of sanctity, is, I suppose, remembered solely as a wielder of the barbed word.

      Miss Rowland is balanced skilfully upon that same slender trapeze, doing a very deft bow-and-arrow act, her archery of a high order.

      She wields a wicked bow, a kindly bow, a swift, a sure, a ductile bow.

      Matrimony is her favorite target (so was it Bombo's and Herrick's and even political Parnell had his shot at it) and her little winged arrows are often bitingly pointed with philosophy, satire, wit and sometimes just a touch of good old home-brew American hokum.

      For this wise woman with the high-spirited bow behind her arrow, these little pages speak eloquently.

      FANNIE HURST.

      OVERTURE

      Would you your sweetheart's secret seek to spell?

      There are so many little ways to tell!

      A hair, perhaps, shall prove him false or true—

      A single hair upon his coat lapel!

      PRELUDE

      THE sweetest part of a kiss is the moment just before taking.

      Love is misery—sweetened with imagination, salted with tears, spiced with doubt, flavored with

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